Infopath forms keeps track of where it has been published before and where from it was published. Therefore if the form is moved it gives warning like the one bellow:
This is exactly the same thing happens when source is branched from trunk and is being opened from branch.
Click okay and form is displayed in editable mode. So far it's all right. But when the from is being published again from branch infopath form will ask for saving the file before it can be published even if there has not been any change in the form.
Depending on the user preference, if the always save checkbox is ticked earlier, this dialog box will not appear, instead it will open the file save dialog directly.
That's where the confusion is. In regular publish from does not display the save as box. User can easily confuse about whether that is the publish location it's talking about or the source location.
Infact that's what happened to me. I save the file to it's publish location and then publish it to the same location.
The funniest thing is I've lost all my work. It simply published and stored the original file. All changes are overwritten.
To avoid such loss , I recommend, any time if you move a infopath form do the following thing first:
- Save the form again to it's new source, make sure path is selected correctly
- publish to the correct location
I hope this writing will help some one from loosing their days work, just because infopath form doesn't like to move around.
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